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GOTHIC PROFILES IN FRANCE
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FIG. 114.

the higher level of the triforium within, while those of the pinnacles of the apse of Reims are very thin; but the thickness is in both cases in conformity with the principle stated in the text—the capitals of the buttresses of Paris being of the spreading form, while those of the pinnacles of Reims spread but little.